Split text between two slides

Click the AutoFit Options tool at the lower-left corner of the placeholder box.

Select Split Text Between Two Slides or Continue on a New Slide.

A new slide is created immediately after the current one.

Split Text ... divides the current text in two halves. The latter half is moved to the new slide.

Continue ... leaves all the current text on the current slide. You click the new slide and continue typing.

Turn AutoFit on or off for a given placeholder

The menu has options for turning AutoFit on or off:

Option

Description

AutoFit Text

If you add more text than can fit in the placeholder, PowerPoint resizes your text to a smaller font size. This is the default setting.

Stop Fitting Text

PowerPoint won't reduce the text in that box to a smaller font size. The text will overfill the box. Use one of the next three options to fix the overflow.

Determine how the text is divided and formatted

The menu also has options for splitting text between slides or formatting text in two columns:

Option

Description

Split Text Between Two Slides

PowerPoint creates a new slide with the same title as the current slide, and it divides the text approximately evenly between the two slides.

Continue on a New Slide

PowerPoint creates a new slide with the same title as the current slide. Just switch to it and continue typing the text you want to add.

Change to two columns

PowerPoint formats the current text in a two-column layout.

It didn't work?

The AutoFit options don't work for text boxes that you draw on a slide. The AutoFit options only appear for body text in a placeholder. Placeholders are the dotted boxes that are automatically placed on slides by PowerPoint.

If the process doesn't work for the text you want to split, cut (Ctrl+X) the text from one slide and paste (Ctrl+V) it onto another slide.

Split a table across two slides

Split text between two slides

Click the AutoFit Options tool at the lower-left corner of the placeholder box.

Select Split Text Between Two Slides or Continue on a New Slide.

A new slide is created immediately after the current one.

Split Text ... divides the current text in two halves. The latter half is moved to the new slide.

Continue ... leaves all the current text on the current slide. You click the new slide and continue typing.

Turn AutoFit on or off for a given placeholder

The menu has options for turning AutoFit on or off:

Option

Description

AutoFit Text

If you add more text than can fit in the placeholder, PowerPoint resizes your text to a smaller font size. This is the default setting.

Stop Fitting Text

PowerPoint won't reduce the text in that box to a smaller font size. The text will overfill the box. Use one of the next three options to fix the overflow.

Determine how the text is divided and formatted

The menu also has options for splitting text between slides or formatting text in two columns:

Option

Description

Split Text Between Two Slides

PowerPoint creates a new slide with the same title as the current slide, and it divides the text approximately evenly between the two slides.

Continue on a New Slide

PowerPoint creates a new slide with the same title as the current slide. Just switch to it and continue typing the text you want to add.

Change to two columns

PowerPoint formats the current text in a two-column layout.

It didn't work?

The AutoFit options don't work for text boxes that you draw on a slide. The AutoFit options only appear for body text in a placeholder. Placeholders are the dotted boxes that are automatically placed on slides by PowerPoint.

If the process doesn't work for the text you want to split, cut (Ctrl+X) the text from one slide and paste (Ctrl+V) it onto another slide.

PowerPoint Online doesn't support automated splitting of text between slides. You must cut and paste to transfer overflow text to a different slide, or else use a desktop version of PowerPoint.